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# Technical Standards Bodies are Regulators
- URL: https://werd.io/technical-standards-bodies-are-regulators/
- Published: 2023-11-01T13:25:50.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-01T13:25:50.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

This is an interesting point of view, but I don't think I fully buy it: while these bodies set technical standards, they have no ability to actually enforce.

Consider the situation with Internet Explorer back when it virtually owned the web (and, to a lesser extent, the situation today with Chrome). Standards could be set, directions could be established, but there was no-one to stop Microsoft from going their own way. [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/11/01/regulators)\]